<blockquote>
<p>"I see myself as being a symbol of what the people rail
against when they say our civil liberties are eroded. This case
could be, I hope it will be, a wakeup call to all of the citizens
of this country and all of the people who live here that you
can’t lock up the lawyers. You can’t tell the lawyers
how to do their job. You’ve got to let them operate. And I
will fight on. I am not giving up. I know I commited no crime. I
know what I did was right."</p>

<p>In April 2002, then U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft personally
announced to the news media that the government had indicted radical
civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart on serious charges of
"conspiracy, providing material support to terrorists and
defrauding the U.S. government."</p>

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<p>SpongeBob
SquarePants is known all over the world. He has his own cartoon show on Nickelodeon
and people of all ages seem to have at least one toy or product with his image
on it. Having just been on the big screen, he had the spotlight on him long
before James Dobson and his group, Focus on the Family, launched their attack
on him accusing the sponge of being "pro-homosexual" and tolerant
of people of different sexual orientations.</p>
<p>SpongeBob recently agreed to meet with the <em>RW</em> at his home—a
pineapple under the sea—to talk about all the controversy surrounding
him and what is at the heart of it. What follows is an unedited transcript
of our conversatio

With Dean at the head of the Democratic Party, will it wtop being a confrontation-averse, Republican-aping, corporate-cash wheedling…and election-losing opposition, or will it start fighting back? The Social Security battle will be a good place to find out whether Dean can still yell.

The Boston Anarchist Summit is being organized by an ad-hoc group of local anarchists who are active in organizations including but not limited to: Anarchist Archives Project, Anarchist Black Cross of Boston, Anarchist Social Club at CSW, BAAM!, Boston IWW, Food Not Bombs, Institute for Applied Autonomy, La Rivolta, Lucy Parsons Center, NEFAC, Northeast Antifascists, Prison Book Program, Radical Reference and more...